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We could have made beautiful, horrible children together, Yahtzee. Ever.” Well fuck, so much for the wedding. For aspiring game critics, add to that “and especially never play your heroes’ games. There’s an old saying: never meet your heroes. One that is occasionally funny, but not funny enough (especially when the awful Rondo stuff starts) to justify spending real money on it. You have to go to the game’s achievement page in Steam to view leaderboards (I currently rank #30 globally, which as far as embarrassing achievements go ranks up there with the time I watched the entire season of Power Rangers Samurai without getting up to use the bathroom). These only serve to make every round you play without those items feel like a slow waste of your time. There’s a multiplier you get at random from the wizard that could either double the points you get the next game or earn you another life during your next round. Worst of all is the game isn’t remotely fun to play. That’s topical, right? Except that scene is such a parody onto itself that it’s really not funny here. Hey look, an almost satire on one niche aspect of the gaming scene: anime dating sims. This feels like a game Yahtzee would shit on himself if he hadn’t made it. Maybe because of the Zero Punctuation title I was expecting a more scathing and self-aware satire on games and gaming culture, like the Beginners Guide if it was narrated by a fast-talking, British-born Australian psychopath. All the humor is limited to the minigames, which have a couple of laugh-out-loud gags in them, especially one based around insurance fraud. The running gag of misspelled words in the background continues from his reviews, but none of them are funny without the context of his commentary. Sometimes he says “WRONG!” and other times he says “noooice!” That’s it, unless I missed something. In fact, I’m pretty sure the only voice overs from Yahtzee are two words. “Oh, so we won’t have to hear that awful man’s voice that sounds like the Micro Machine Man did twenty years in the Tower of London for doing terrible things with cattle? Oh um, what a shame, Cathy” they said while high-fiving each-other between toasts of champagne. I also figured it would involve some sort of fast-talking commentary by Yahtzee himself. Because it sucks.Ĭall me crazy, but I sort of figured a game based on Zero Punctuation would be more satirical of gaming. You’ll want to play this minigame over and over again when you’re trying to slay the evil hat God. Stages fly by quickly, eventually spawning a wizard event that has an additional effects challenge that earns you a present if you complete it. Sometimes the game also drops deadly projectiles in addition to hats, and it takes a little bit of practice to be able to tell the difference. The further you make it, the more stick-figure lookalikes crowd the screen, forcing you to quickly figure out which one is you before the hat hits the ground. The core game is you move left and right catching hats one at a time. Butter knife dull? David Attenborough documentary on the history of butter knives dull ? BluRay special edition audio commentary on the David Attenborough documentary on the history of butter knives with special guest Ben Stein dull? Which actually makes me wonder how dull the mobile version must be. It’s actually a mobile game converted to Steam with a few upgrades. So I chose Hatfall, the Zero Punctuation-based game. One of them is a survival horror game, a genre typically as compatible with my epilepsy as a housefly is with a rolled up copy of the New York Times. Low and behold, he just happened to have two games release on Steam. Given that I just reviewed a game Jim acted in, the hugely disappointing Volume, I figured I should check out my other idol’s work.

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Yahtzee has made a series of free-to-play indies that inspired his Yahtzee persona. Jim is a critically acclaimed voice actor. Someone pass me the vaseline.īoth also moonlight in game development itself.

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